Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and CursesSimon and Schuster, 16 ביוני 2008 - 304 עמודים Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons. Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a delectable feast of strange and occasionally frightening rock and roll tales, featuring the ironies associated with the tragic deaths of many rock icons, unsolved murders, and other tales from the "fell clutch of circumstance." Beginning with the fateful place where it all started -- a deserted country crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil -- through the Buddy Holly curse (rock and roll's first great tragedy) and beyond, this incredible volume uncovers some of rock and roll's most celebrated murders, twists of fate, and decades-long streaks of bad luck that defy rational explanation. Inside you'll find:
Carefully researched, wildly enjoyable, and often harrowing, Take a Walk on the Dark Side takes the reader on a mysterious ride through rock and roll history. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 74
עמוד xi
... song for his mother the one who breathed life into its body? Pinpointing the origins of rock and roll is an arduous ... songs that I grew up xii with are like old friends. They are a part.
... song for his mother the one who breathed life into its body? Pinpointing the origins of rock and roll is an arduous ... songs that I grew up xii with are like old friends. They are a part.
עמוד xv
... song “Great Balls of Fire” was of the devil and that to sing it was to sin. Sam Phillips (owner of Sun Studios) argued against Jerry Lee's stand. Following a long period of time filled with mutual quoting from the Scriptures by Phillips ...
... song “Great Balls of Fire” was of the devil and that to sing it was to sin. Sam Phillips (owner of Sun Studios) argued against Jerry Lee's stand. Following a long period of time filled with mutual quoting from the Scriptures by Phillips ...
עמוד xvi
... songs was primarily the clever wordplay and an infectious beat. Holly's playing did more to promote the Fender Stratocaster guitar than any other artist (notwithstanding Jimi Hendrix, of course). In a time filled with the terrible ...
... songs was primarily the clever wordplay and an infectious beat. Holly's playing did more to promote the Fender Stratocaster guitar than any other artist (notwithstanding Jimi Hendrix, of course). In a time filled with the terrible ...
עמוד 8
... songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a crossroads is. A big black man will walk up there [at the stroke of midnight] and take your guitar, and he'll tune it.”1 Tommy Johnson and the crossroads are mentioned in the ...
... songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a crossroads is. A big black man will walk up there [at the stroke of midnight] and take your guitar, and he'll tune it.”1 Tommy Johnson and the crossroads are mentioned in the ...
עמוד 10
... songs. Then again in a cemetery near Greenwood, Mississippi, there is another grave said to contain the mortal body of Robert Johnson. The headstone was donated by rock band ZZ Top. Many visitors place guitar picks as a tribute to the ...
... songs. Then again in a cemetery near Greenwood, Mississippi, there is another grave said to contain the mortal body of Robert Johnson. The headstone was donated by rock band ZZ Top. Many visitors place guitar picks as a tribute to the ...
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The Devil Went Down to Georgia | 37 |
Mr Crowley | 57 |
Sympathy for the Devil | 71 |
The Sorcerers Apprentice | 99 |
Welcome to the Hotel California | 139 |
The Backward Mask and Other | 163 |
The Club | 217 |
Notes | 263 |
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